Glossary for Extreme tiredness

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• African Sleeping sickness: A disease caused by parasites (Trypanosome brucei gamiense or T. brucei rodesiense) and transmitted to humans by the tsetse fly which is found only in Africa. Causes symptoms such as fever, chills, headache, anemia, edema of hands and feet, enlarged lymph glands, lethargy, sleepiness, convulsions and coma. Also called African trypanosomiasis and sleeping sickness.
• Anxiety: Excessive worry, anxiety, or fear.
• Breathing difficulties: Various types of breathing difficulty (dyspnea).
• Chronic fatigue syndrome: A persistent debilitating fatigue of recent onset
• Colorectal cancer: Cancer of the colon (bowel) or rectum.
• Cytomegalovirus: A easily transmissible viral infection that is common but generally causes no symptoms except in infants and people with weakened immune systems.
• Depressive symptoms: Inappropriate depressed mood.
• Dermatomyositis: A muscle disease characterized by chronic muscle inflammation resulting in progressive muscle weakness and a characteristic rash.
• Diabetes-like symptoms: Symptoms similar to those of diabetes
• Drowsiness: Excessive tiredness or sleepiness
• Epstein-Barr virus: Common virus causing mononucleosis
• Extreme tiredness in pregnancy: Extreme tiredness in pregnancy is a severe loss of energy. It can occur at any stage of pregnancy but is most common in the first and third trimesters.
• Fatigue: Excessive tiredness or weakness.
• Heart failure: A condition which is characterized by an inability of the heart to pump blood efficiently and effectively
• Hepatic failure: loss of normal liver function and metabolism of products by the liver
• Hypoglycemia: Low blood sugar levels
• Hypothyroidism: The decreased activity of the thyroid gland
• Insomnia: feeling of melancholy
• Low haemoglobin: Decreased concentration of haemoglobin in the blood.
• Lupus: Autoimmune disease with numerous effects on various organs and linings.
• Muscle strain: Damage to a muscle due to over-stretching of the muscle tissue. The damage involves tearing the muscle tissue. Small blood vessels may also be damaged which can cause bruising. The symptoms may vary from mild to severe depending on the severity of the damage.
• Muscle weakness: Weakness of the muscles or loss of tone
• Myelofibrosis: A rare condition where progressive scarring or fibrosis of the bone marrow impairs it's ability to make blood cells causing symptoms such as anemia and liver and spleen enlargement.
• Narcolepsy: Narcolepsy is characterized by the classic tetrad of excessive daytime sleepiness, cataplexy, hypnagogic hallucinations, and sleep paralysis.
• Renal failure: A condition characterized by a failure of the kidney to excrete toxic metabolites from the body
• Respiratory conditions: Any condition that affects the respiratory system
• Respiratory distress: A condition which is characterized by poor respiration that results in the body being under stress
• Sleep apnea: A condition which is characterized by transient attacks of apnea that usually occur during ones sleep
• Tiredness: Feeling tired either physically or mentally

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